Cultural water demand data including population, number of wells and the average well pumpage and non-groundwater use by the municipal, industrial and agricultural sectors are shown in Table 8.2-10. Effluent generation including facility ownership, location, population served and not served, volume treated, disposal method and treatment level is shown in Table 8.2-11. Figure 8.2-12 shows the location of demand centers. A description of cultural water demand data sources and methods is found in Volume 1, Appendix A. More detailed information on cultural water demands is found in Section 8.0.7.

There are a wide range of effluent disposal methods with some of the most common being: discharge into an open watercourse, golf course irrigation, permitted recharge, industrial reuse and crop irrigation.

More than 7,000 acre-feet of effluent are treated/produced annually in the Pinal AMA.